Digging Up Armageddon : The Search for the Lost City of Solomon /
"In 1925 a team of archaeologists was sent by famed archaeologist James Henry Breasted, the Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, to search for the city that King Solomon built in the tenth century BCE. These excavations are rightfully famous for the light they shed o...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : "Welcome to Armageddon"
- Prologue : "Have Found Solomon's Stables"
- Part I. 1920-1926. "Please Accept My Resignation"
- "He Must Knock Off or You Will Bury Him"
- "A Fairly Sharp Rap on the Knuckles"
- "We Have Already Three Distinct Levels"
- Part II. 1927-1934. "I Really Need a Bit of a Holiday"
- "They Can Be Nothing Else Than Stables"
- "Admonitory but Merciful"
- "The Tapping of the Pickmen"
- "The Most Sordid Document"
- "Either a Battle or an Earthquake"
- Part III: 1935-1939. "A Rude Awakening"
- "The Director is Gone"
- "You Asked for the Sensational"
- "A Miserable Death Threat"
- "The Stratigraphical Skeleton"
- Part IV: 1940-2020. "Instructions Had Been Given to Protect This Property"
- Epilogue "Certain Digging Areas Remain Incompletely Excavated"
- Cast of Characters: Chicago Expedition Staff and Spouses (alphabetical and with participation dates)
- Year by Year List of Chicago Expedition Staff plus Major Events.